Speaker: Johnny Uelmen, Assistant Professor in Population Health Sciences, UW-Madison
Disease emergence is a moving target: as climate and land use change, so do the ranges of vectors, hosts, and pathogens. Drawing on projects spanning West Nile virus ecology in Las Vegas, Nipah virus in Bangladesh, and citizen-science applications for improving disease surveillance, Johnny Uelmen traces how environmental change reshapes disease risk across scales. He highlights how One Health surveillance, remote sensing, and AI-driven modeling convert environmental data into forecasts – and what these approaches mean for pandemic preparedness in a rapidly changing world.